Past Experience
Eat. Code. Sleep. Repeat.
co-founder · NFT infrastucture on Solana
6m+ transactions, 40k mau
Blend
PM · innovation research in homebuying journey
co-founder · AI communication coaching platform
30k beta revenue, 2.5k speeches analyzed
executive director · led world's largest collegiate hackathon
Amazon
SWE · backend algos for the ads team
Apple
SWE · iOS features for Apple News
champion of the ping pong table
Projects
Code. Build. Hack. It's time to hack.
Teaching
"Hey guys, Avi here. Welcome back!"
founder · programming courses and videos
1m+ students, 70k subscribers, 300 hours of videos
CS 170
ugsi · taught algorithms, led discussions, made videos
Cubstart
instructor · iOS and web curriculum for beginners
Readings
Blue: highly recommend
- Three Body Problem
- Exhalations
- Ticket Masters
- Range
- Shoe Dog
- 2022
- 1984
- The Secret History of Food
- The Alchemist
- Born a Crime
- Old Man and the Sea
- The Two Cultures
- The Sun Also Rises
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- California Burning
- Eat a Peach
- Myth of Sisyphus
- The End of the World is Just the Beginning
- The Stranger
- The Dream Machine
- Tao of Pooh
- Brave New World
- The Biggest Bluff
- Crime and Punishment
- The Utopia of Rules
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- The Tale of Two Cities
- 2023
- Debt: The First 5,000 years
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
- The Dark Forest
- Death's End
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Stay True*
- Brother's Karamazov*
- 2024
Running
2024 mileage: 452 mi · half marathon pr: 1:37:35
Lifting
75 hard completed · 1000 lb club progress: 62%